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Nickb
Nickb
WA
43 posts
WA, 43 posts
5 Aug 2013 12:36pm
Out at Quinns Rocks yesterday had aball
not only one cobbler but one in each foot not a good day out
F--------ing Pain get your feet in the hot water hotter the better

gokid
gokid
QLD
491 posts
QLD, 491 posts
5 Aug 2013 3:06pm
is a cobbler the same as a sea urchin
Juddy
Juddy
WA
1103 posts
WA, 1103 posts
5 Aug 2013 1:27pm
Jesus wept, you unlucky b@stard....

Hope the recovery goes well. I've been there (once)....
scubaste
scubaste
WA
210 posts
WA, 210 posts
5 Aug 2013 1:38pm
I feel for you matey, i stepped on one at Pineroo some years ago, the pain is real bad more so than any other injury i have had, what i did for the pain was a bowl of hot water (neutralises poison) and lots of quality german beer..!
Worked for me....
dusta
dusta
WA
2940 posts
WA, 2940 posts
5 Aug 2013 1:47pm
scubaste said..

I feel for you matey, i stepped on one at Pineroo some years ago, the pain is real bad more so than any other injury i have had, what i did for the pain was a bowl of hot water (neutralises poison) and lots of quality german beer..!
Worked for me....


ultra hot bordering on cooking your foot hot is the only way to get rid of the pain . I stepped on one at peli point 2 years ago and foot in water and lots of greens helped with the pain but the drive home was the most intense pain i have ever felt .
Nickb
Nickb
WA
43 posts
WA, 43 posts
5 Aug 2013 3:01pm
gokid said..
is a cobbler the same as a sea urchin


No A cobbler would be more like a stone fish
Jonopark
Jonopark
WA
400 posts
WA, 400 posts
5 Aug 2013 4:33pm
Hahahaha sorry to laugh but f#%k that must of hurt. Got done at mullaz last year abd i cant imagine the pain of both feet at once. Now i dont walk in the shallows!! Also when trying to sleep a hot wheat bag is perfect as can be tapped aroubd the foot while waitibg for the valium and whisky to combine!!
ROSS1BRO
ROSS1BRO
62 posts
62 posts
5 Aug 2013 6:31pm
nup, sea urchin tastes better
Chris6791
Chris6791
WA
3271 posts
WA, 3271 posts
5 Aug 2013 6:35pm
I'm not sure what's bigger, the needle, or the watch face?
eppo
eppo
WA
9789 posts
WA, 9789 posts
5 Aug 2013 8:03pm
Christ I had one in the foot and thought I as gonna die! Two, Christ all mighty!!
gokid
gokid
QLD
491 posts
QLD, 491 posts
5 Aug 2013 10:18pm
Nickb said..

gokid said..
is a cobbler the same as a sea urchin


No A cobbler would be more like a stone fish


thanks dont think we have them in Queensland lucky
bennie
bennie
ACT
1258 posts
ACT, 1258 posts
6 Aug 2013 12:40am
damn that sound painful!.
I have never heard of cobblers but apparently the live in waters all around aus:

Found in estuaries and silty bays of temperate marine waters from the Houtman Abrolhos, WA to southern QLD and northern Tasmania, Cobbler prefer areas where the bottom is sandy and weeds provide some cover for their nesting burrows where it remains concealed in this habitat during the day.

I got this from a google search
gordknot
gordknot
NSW
148 posts
NSW, 148 posts
6 Aug 2013 8:31am
pretty sure that's what got me twice in Sydney. Once in Pittwater and once in Narrabeen lakes. That sliced cut looks familiar

Hurts like fark... and dont use ice water, got home in some serious pain adn my wife an son (studying to be an osetopath) tell me to stick foot in a bucket of iced water- then they go out leaving me on my own. After a while of even more severe pain, only mildly helped by self-medicating vodka, i tried hot water which reduced the pain significantly

btw, when i was walking up the beach having been sliced by the cobbler and having pulled my new 9m out of a tree after getting hammered in overpowered wind, a couple come by to chat, and she tells me she's been stung before and said that is about as bad as kidney stones, which i've had but i think is worse, and she reckons both are worse than child birth....

guess you're having twins Nick
Reevesy
Reevesy
QLD
139 posts
QLD, 139 posts
7 Aug 2013 9:02pm


We have the real deal in qld. The estuarine stone fish is officially the most poisonous fish in the world (I think) and even booties will not stop the spines if you stand right on one. The treatment is as above (hottest water on the sting you can handle). Several people have drowned due to standing on these suckers and just not been able to get ashore due to the pain.
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